Tag: Selfportrait

Music Was My First Love by Nikki Smith (Self Portrait)

Music Was My First Love is a self-portrait in my series of music-inspired digital watercolor paintings, featuring silhouettes of musical instruments and the human form.  This piece combines the silhouette of my back with elements of a guitar following my spine and the shape of my back as if it were a tattoo.  This is…

Found Poetry (detail view) by Nikki Smith

A close-up view showing some of the found poetry and details in my self-portrait.  The poetry in this photo includes: "she lickedsome rainfrom her lipsin slow-motion arcsa sudden thoughta kiss. a smile.memory" "I imagine no more words were necessary" "Very striking eyesfixed on mine.the faraway lookthe promise" "'I was dreaming,' andI never woke upI'd found…

Found Poetry Self-Portrait by Nikki Smith

This self-portrait silhouette is full of "found poetry."  I rescued a severely damaged and abandoned book and upcycled it into fine artwork, selecting a word here and there and piecing them into unique, original poems and stories.  Here are a few samples of my poetry: "one raindrop fell,and then many,a perfect circle expandedperhaps a little…

A Little Me – 42

Paper, paint, fabric, thread – My first attempt at using free motion embroidery to create a portrait, and my first attempt at painting a portrait. A great learning experience!

Waiting, (Self-Portrait)

I collaged two slightly different patterned papers onto a prepared 6X6 board. I looked at a black and white photo of myself to get the basics drawn onto the panel. After that I went crazy using acrylics, colored pencils, chalk pastels, charcoal, fine-tip black and sepia pens and finally a stamp to create an iron…

A New Song In My heART

  I had so much fun creating this piece!  This marks my journey back to myself as an artist.  Also, this is my first mixed media piece!  I am in love with this new way of expressing myself.  There are so many layers of meaning in this piece for me.  I am an artist, musician,…

My Creative World – Detail

Every cloud has a silver lining – mine is strung with tissue paper birds!  I loved the idea of a mini-me "auditioning" birds for the sky, so my basket is also full of birds and I'm holding one end of the silver thread.  The line of birds is continued on the back of the piece,…